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- English Word Suspensible Definition Capable of being suspended; capable of being held from sinking.
- English Word Suspension Definition The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; pendency; as, suspension from a hook.
- English Word Suspension Definition Especially, temporary delay, interruption, or cessation
- English Word Suspension Definition Of labor, study, pain, etc.
- English Word Suspension Definition Of decision, determination, judgment, etc.; as, to ask a suspension of judgment or opinion in view of evidence to be produced.
- English Word Suspension Definition Of the payment of what is due; as, the suspension of a mercantile firm or of a bank.
- English Word Suspension Definition Of punishment, or sentence of punishment.
- English Word Suspension Definition Of a person in respect of the exercise of his office, powers, prerogative, etc.; as, the suspension of a student or of a clergyman.
- English Word Suspension Definition Of the action or execution of law, etc.; as, the suspension of the habeas corpus act.
- English Word Suspension Definition A conditional withholding, interruption, or delay; as, the suspension of a payment on the performance of a condition.
- English Word Suspension Definition The state of a solid when its particles are mixed with, but undissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining; also, any substance in this state.
- English Word Suspension Definition A keeping of the hearer in doubt and in attentive expectation of what is to follow, or of what is to be the inference or conclusion from the arguments or observations employed.
- English Word Suspension Definition A stay or postponement of execution of a sentence condemnatory by means of letters of suspension granted on application to the lord ordinary.
- English Word Suspension Definition The prolongation of one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects. Cf. Retardation.
- English Word Suspensive Definition Tending to suspend, or to keep in suspense; causing interruption or delay; uncertain; doubtful.
- English Word Suspensor Definition A suspensory.
- English Word Suspensor Definition The cord which suspends the embryo; and which is attached to the radicle in the young state; the proembryo.
- English Word Suspensoria Definition of Suspensorium
- English Word Suspensorium Definition Anything which suspends or holds up a part: especially, the mandibular suspensorium (a series of bones, or of cartilages representing them) which connects the base of the lower jaw with the skull in most vertebrates below mammals.
- English Word Suspensory Definition Suspended; hanging; depending.
- English Word Suspensory Definition Fitted or serving to suspend; suspending; as, a suspensory muscle.
- English Word Suspensory Definition Of or pertaining to a suspensorium.
- English Word Suspensory Definition That which suspends, or holds up, as a truss
- English Word Suspensory Definition a bandage or bag for supporting the scrotum.
- English Word Suspicable Definition Liable to suspicion; suspicious.
- English Word Suspiciency Definition Suspiciousness; suspicion.
- English Word Suspicion Definition The act of suspecting; the imagination or apprehension of the existence of something (esp. something wrong or hurtful) without proof, or upon very slight evidence, or upon no evidence.
- English Word Suspicion Definition Slight degree; suggestion; hint.
- English Word Suspicion Definition To view with suspicion; to suspect; to doubt.
- English Word Suspicious Definition Inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to imagine without proof.